The Trip Lab
Welcome to The Trip Lab, kitchen table conversations about integrative medicine and psychedelics with your host and attending physician, Dr. Mary Ella Wood. Taking an evidenced-based approach, we will break down the latest research, interview leaders in the field, and answer all the questions that don't often get brought up in the doctor's office. Instagram: @thetriplabpodcast - Email: thetriplabpodcast@gmail.com
The Trip Lab
#8 – What does the placebo response and psychedelics tap into within us? Ketamine, Psychology & the Soul with Max C Wood
Max C Wood is a graduate student studying developmental neuroscience and psychopathology at the Anna Freud Center in London. He is finishing his studies at Yale, studying the impact that attachment styles have on a psychedelic treatment design, using ketamine.
We talk all about how developmental neuroscience came to be, and why this goes hand in hand with understanding the brain using psychedelics... in addition to using psychedelics to treat human suffering. Going a little deeper into the placebo response, we speculate why it works on both a neuro-biological level and a spiritual level.
Then we dive a little bit into micro-dosing, speculating if the full psychedelic experience is actually necessary to healing or not which ultimately leads us to a discussion on the soul and the spirit and where that fits into all of this.
Reach Max via email at max.crosland-wood@yale.edu
